Fish Tales: It’s a shark eat shark world

For 20 minutes, Colin Beardon was wrestling to land a shark his guide at St. Vincent Shuttle estimated would be about 6-feet long. But then suddenly, the rules of engagement changed.

It wasn’t man versus shark anymore, but man versus shark versus shark when another shark attacked the one on Beardon’s line, biting it clean in half. The remaining stump of a shark is what Beardon ended up reeling in.

“I was bummed that I only went away with half of a shark,” Beardon said on Facebook. “After about 20 minutes, I only received half of what I was fighting. Lol.”

The shark was caught about three miles offshore of St. Vincent Island National Wildlife Refuge earlier this week. The boat captain, Joey Romanelli, believes it was a tiger shark, bull shark or great white shark. Some have also theorized it could have been a goliath grouper, but those on the boat believe it was a shark.

Bottom line: There is always a bigger fish.

Have a fish tale? Catch or see something interesting this last week? Send an email to klandeck@pcnh.com or call 522-5114.

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